This article examines the linkages between social capital and microinsurance using evidences obtained from a 2005 household survey conducted across several locations in India. The current body of literature suggests that micro health insurance schemes are in fact able to mobilize social capital...

Based on data from a 2005 household survey in four locations in India, we examine whether there is an association between insurance status and several indicators of social capital, and whether this association is a general phenomenon or, rather, dependent on attributes of the community or of the...

Micro Finance Institutions (MFI's) have been most successful in lending to women's self-help or solidarity groups. Although MFI's do lend to individuals as well as to other groups, composed of men or including men, by far most of their lending is to self-help groups of poor women. As a result,...

Economic progress is a very complex process. Researchers have identified certain key factors that affect it, of which finance is one. In recent years, there have been studies using econometric time-series analysis to study the short-run and long-run relationships between finance and growth. This...

This paper discusses how artificial intelligence can be applicable in various financial services like banking, insurance, credit rating etc. Researcher has elaborated on his observations regarding which areas and functions can make the use of artificial intelligence and while doing so what...

The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality relationship. In the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there has been an urgent policy challenge of putting some structure on recent advances in...

The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We systematically review about 180 recently published papers to provide...

The overarching question tackled in this paper is: to what degree has financial development contributed to providing opportunities of human development for those on low-incomes and by what information technology mechanisms? We survey about 180 recently published papers to provide recent...

The segmentation of global manufacturing and services provided China and subsequently India with a golden opportunity to make full use of their absolute advantage low cost yet educated labour to integrate into the world economy within a comparatively shorter period of time than some earlier...

The context of providing right value to the customer begins with a holistic objective and a broad vision. The issue of broad vision appears as being devoid of the point focus, but it is a blessing in disguise especially when this asymptotic phenomenon results because of inclusion of...